ALCHEMY - The Science of turning the baser metals
into gold or silver by chemical means. The byproduct, "Quicksilver," was
thought to have magical powers. This was a very perfected science in Egyptian
times and lasted all the way up into the 14th-16th Century A.D.
when some of the alchemy methods were lost due to wars and fires that were amid
in those times.

ANOMALY - An irregular or unusual event which does
not fit a standard rule or law. An anomaly is something which cannot be
explained by currently accepted scientific theories. Anything weird, abnormal,
strange, odd, or difficult to classify is considered an anomaly.